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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
If your supervisors and other veteran officials in your area think that an OOB call can be ignored at ANY time during a game, then your supervisors and veteran officials need to give up officiating and take up broadcasting. OOB calls MUST be called at at ALL times.
Our avocation doesn't need supervisors and veteran officials like yours imo.
Big Picture? Not freaking likely!
Terrible, terrible advice.
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See..this is what I love about this board. In your area, JR ("hell" according to your profile), there are no grey areas, and thus no reason to debate the call (or non-call).
In my neck of the woods, it's very different. And not because of my two cents. Because it's the commissioners that oversee the schools, then hire my supervisors, who then hire(d) our vets, who retain them and reward them with schedules and playoff assignments (with coaches input) who create and perpetute the culture and philosophy of having "common sense" in tough situations.
The context that this discussion is rooted in is 0.1 seconds and a tie game!!! If you don't see that as relevant info, then read no further.
I can appreciate about OOB not being a judgement call. But if you saw the play, it wasn't even obvious that the player stepped on the line. Even when they froze the replay and zoomed in, it wasn't clear. That's why i used the term EDGED.
I'm not a D1 men's official, but I know enough of them to know that at that level, they "apply" the rules and philosophies very differently than I do. Yes, I realize that sometimes the rest of us commoners become collateral damage because of it, but it's mostly outcry from ignorant fans or bystanders.
I'm not here to give advice, just share my perspective. There's enough opinions for everyone to take what works for them.
Until the day when you take Hank Nichols' job JR, my supervisors and colleagues will still have a job while you may continue to criticize us on how we don't deserve to wear the stripes.
Like someone else's tag says "it is what it is".